Backblogged: Our Five Favorite Sentences of the Week

“His penchant for making the same mistakes, over and over—his issues between the legs and between the ears—had ended his hockey season but had yet to finish off his mayoral campaign.” From “Weiner on Ice,” by Nick Paumgarten.

“It was as if a small liberal-arts college had been plunked down into a farm field.” From “Thank You, Barnes & Noble,” by Michael Agger.

“The pleasures of this novel—its lucidity and wry humor—are mixed with the sting of recognizing the essential unfairness of the sexual mores of our moment: after years of liberated fun, many women begin to feel terribly lonely when realize they want a commitment; men, who seem to have all the power to choose, are also stuck with an unasked-for power to inflict hurt.” From “Love, Actually,” by Sasha Weiss.

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